Just the best!
Added 2025-03-22 15:34:17 +0000 UTC-Alex
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To this day I skip S2 during rewatches because of that b@"!?$.
Holly Davis
2025-03-26 16:47:25 +0000 UTCI found Pulaski infinitely more interesting than Crusher.
Michael Nemo
2025-03-25 22:32:31 +0000 UTCI was mainly needling TA with this. I know they’re Gates fans. 😁
tyranusfan
2025-03-25 19:36:50 +0000 UTCYou've been listening to Newbie Star Trek too much! But yes, Beverly suffered for the same reason Worf suffered. Need to show we have a threatening virus? Well Crusher can't do anything about it. Need a crew member to die painfully? Too bad Doctor Crusher couldn't fix it! Need that Mintakan to think Picard is a god? Poor Crusher wasn't able to wipe his memory like Pulaski was.
Ian Westcott
2025-03-25 17:04:10 +0000 UTCPoliski had to learn to stop being rude to Data.
empirejeff
2025-03-24 04:32:32 +0000 UTCthey tried to re-create Dr McCoy and it didn't go so well.
penoyer79
2025-03-23 21:19:31 +0000 UTCWithout spoilers there remain some episodes/features showcasing Dr. Crusher that I am really looking forward to seeing you react to.
Cirk Bejnar
2025-03-23 19:02:11 +0000 UTCActually that would have been a perfect start to season 3 - Picard starts the episode with a captain’s log and states how Dr Pulaski fell down the turbolift shaft and died on impact. The next scene shows the Enterprise arriving to pick up Dr Crusher and everyone celebrates her return
Worf and Riker Ride Again
2025-03-23 12:01:17 +0000 UTCAs a kid I didn’t understand why sometimes the lovely redhead doctor was replaced by the bitter grouchy doctor, the re-runs were always shown in a random order so every week was a lottery
Worf and Riker Ride Again
2025-03-23 11:17:24 +0000 UTCOne of the primary reasons that The Next Generation is considered by fandom (and myself) to be the best Star Trek series is its feeling of family. There is nothing these actors and characters wouldn’t do for each other. This is true for them in real life and it comes through in their performances on the series. No other Star Trek series had that feeling of family at this level…not even TOS…and that’s just the truth. Pulaski was just that irritating know-it-all aunt that we all avoid at family gatherings. She never quite fit in and this is not a reflection of Diana Muldaur’s skills as an actress, as she is wonderful. Her character was intentionally written to be the foil for conflict in that perfect family. But, god, how good it was to have Dr. Crusher back where she belonged! ❤️
Raphael Gaytan
2025-03-23 10:08:19 +0000 UTCAlthough, if we're looking for a Beverly is Awesome edit, might need to redo this about this time next year or so, when we have a couple more seasons and a movie or two to pull from. Some of Crusher's most iconic stuff is still ahead of us.
Avaria
2025-03-23 07:09:10 +0000 UTCIf you watch enough 70-90s era tv, you will see Diana Muldaur all over the place, a lot more that you will ever see that McFadden whastername.
Alan Thompson
2025-03-23 07:04:31 +0000 UTCI wasn't really sad to see her leave the show but I did always wish she would have made a one episode return to give her character a proper send off.
GalacticGod
2025-03-23 05:56:08 +0000 UTCThat's OK because I'm not selling anything.......
William McRae
2025-03-23 04:45:29 +0000 UTCNah. I’m not buying it.
Tom Occhipinti
2025-03-23 04:44:17 +0000 UTCThe actress?
Tom Occhipinti
2025-03-23 04:43:23 +0000 UTCThat’s a bit of a reach, especially given that Data isn’t vulnerable like that… emotionally, intellectually, or otherwise.
Tom Occhipinti
2025-03-23 04:43:03 +0000 UTCYup, you are absolutely right! I always liked Diana Muldaur.
tyranusfan
2025-03-23 01:54:18 +0000 UTCThey were trying to recreate the dynamic between Spock and McCoy but somehow didn't realize that Data's character was far more passive than Spock's in a way that made it look exactly as you describe.
Shane Coombs
2025-03-23 01:39:04 +0000 UTCAnd this is a bit of a knock on the acting of Gates. But when she does that she usually gives the patient a glance that at best is dismissal and at worst disgust.
Greg Quinn
2025-03-23 01:27:45 +0000 UTCNo hate on the actress or character. I feel bad for her. She said over the years, that the rest of the cast sorta treated her like an outsider. That they weren't very welcoming. I can believe it.
Tom Occhipinti
2025-03-23 01:26:46 +0000 UTCThere are multiple examples of that happening. Lol
Greg Quinn
2025-03-23 01:26:37 +0000 UTCPulaski is the way more interesting character. Wish she came back. Not to mention diana moulder is a fantastic actress. The character was dynamic and had so much potential to explore. Shame really, she doesnt deserve the hate. For those reasons like pulaski more than Bev. Not much more, but still.
Nico Salerno
2025-03-23 00:50:10 +0000 UTCThere are people online who review TNG, and they think Beverly's bedside manner is terrible. (Citing, for instance, how she'll often say "there's nothing I can do" right in front of a dying character.) Everything's a matter of opinion, I guess. I didn't have a problem with any of the ST doctors.
tyranusfan
2025-03-22 23:17:05 +0000 UTCAnd Crusher was prettier. So there’s that angle.
Column Meanie
2025-03-22 23:01:12 +0000 UTCWatching Pulaski and Data now, her attitude makes me think of someone making fun of an autistic child, who not only can't fight back, also doesn't even fully understand what she's saying. That was the writers' horrible miscalculation.
Joe Concepts
2025-03-22 22:57:39 +0000 UTCIn this corner fighting for her job back ! we have the incompetent beverlllley crushhhher! Fighting out of the fallen character corner we have the ain’t got time for bullshit dr. Pulaski!
Steve the greeeen hand
2025-03-22 22:39:34 +0000 UTCI like her there is plenty of moments where she shines and actually has great scenes but overall as a doctor and her solo or focused episodes were horrible. She was a disaster lol . Funny thing is when Pulaski came into the show I was pissed…but after seeing bev work again after I was like man they need an adult on that ship lol
Steve the greeeen hand
2025-03-22 22:36:12 +0000 UTCCrusher is just a bad character in general. She's terribly written and the performance is nothing to write home about. She's considered the worst doctor in the franchise by a lot of fans for a reason. I didn't even realize Beverly Crusher stans were a thing until I discovered this Patreon. Even Gates McFadden was extremely critical of the shit writing for her character. I respect all opinions but I have no idea what people see in her. Agree to disagree I guess.
Spencer Loften
2025-03-22 22:34:08 +0000 UTCRespectfully she was awful.
Christopher Hayes
2025-03-22 22:17:41 +0000 UTCYes, she was written with room to grow. I like McCoy, Crusher but their characters didn’t really develop over the course of the series.
Kurt Linke
2025-03-22 22:15:32 +0000 UTCLol
Dylan Bottom
2025-03-22 22:14:06 +0000 UTCPulaski would nag and Crusher would throw “cwosaunt” at her.
Column Meanie
2025-03-22 22:13:45 +0000 UTCYep! They equated Spock/McCoy with Data/Pulaski. The problem is that they wrote Pulaski as a bully of a unknowing child (Data). That said, she warmed to him and even championed him. More character growth in Pulaski in 1 season than we’ve seen in Beverly in 4 seasons.
Column Meanie
2025-03-22 22:11:41 +0000 UTCIf only they wrote more for her.
Column Meanie
2025-03-22 22:09:15 +0000 UTCAs I said below, I think that 99% of the problems fans have with Pulaski is the terrible way that the creators handled her relationship with Data, and in fact most seem to like her not-warm-or-friendly relationship with Picard, because whereas she is written as a bully to Data, she is written as an equal who trades barbs with Picard.
Shane Coombs
2025-03-22 22:05:43 +0000 UTCBeverly Crushin my Heart!!
Badger
2025-03-22 21:23:42 +0000 UTCApril 1st is next week.
Nerd's Gold
2025-03-22 19:13:25 +0000 UTCRo Larem is a good example of a female character who is distant and aloof on the surface but peel back the layers you find that there's much more to her. She's a compelling figure who draws you as a viewer in.
William McRae
2025-03-22 18:44:36 +0000 UTCCompletely agree I’m sure in world she’s an actual good doctor.. but what stories and lines she was given made it seem like she was incompetent at times. Loved her overall in the entire run of the show
Steve the greeeen hand
2025-03-22 18:35:29 +0000 UTCIt's not really Crusher's fault because it is just differences in the types of stories that TNG told vs. the other series, but when you see DS9, VOY, and even ENT (along with TOS) and then look back on Crusher you wind up seeing her much less favorably from purely professional/medical standpoint. She's just never really given much to do to make her look like a great doctor as compared to what the other four doctors in the classic franchise wind up doing.
Shane Coombs
2025-03-22 18:34:27 +0000 UTCI think the reason Pulaski was unpopular was almost entirely about how she was written with regard to Data. She WAS supposed to be like McCoy, and in and of itself I think this may have worked. The problem was that in trying to make her like McCoy they also decided to try to recreate the relationship dynamic between McCoy and Spock and to Data seemed like the closest fit for that. One problem with this is that season 2 Data was not the Data who would stand up to Fajo and ultimately try to kill him - he was much, much more innocent and passive than that. This also means he was NOT Spock. The McCoy/Spock dynamic was not just McCoy giving Spock a hard time: Spock not only was able to take it, but he also gave it back just as much. It was a relationship of two people going at one another, but the Pulaski/Data relationship was one sided. The other, maybe bigger problem is that especially in the early seasons Data was written as having a very innocent characterization in that he usually didn't understand the subtext of what people were saying, he didn't understand how human beings behaved or how they worked on an emotional level (even moreso than in the later seasons), etc. This meant that when Pulaski made her one-sided comments about Data that it came across like someone making fun of a child, and in some ways a not particularly bright child at that. Now contrast this with her relationship with Picard. THAT relationship worked, and is one of the more enjoyable parts of season 2. That is essentially a working version of what they tried and failed with Pulaski and Data. The two clearly aren't the biggest fans of one another, but there is also a respect between them, and there is at times a bit of mutual back and forth. That relationship worked, but the one with Data made her look like a bully, which is really the biggest reason people disliked Pulaski.
Shane Coombs
2025-03-22 18:32:16 +0000 UTCWe love Ensign Ro.
Josh (Target Audience)
2025-03-22 18:19:53 +0000 UTCNever fooled me for a second.
Collin Freeman
2025-03-22 17:58:19 +0000 UTCIf there’s nothing wrong with me, maybe there’s something wrong with the universe!?
Utterlee
2025-03-22 17:31:21 +0000 UTCCan't wait for you guys to experience the rest of the doctors!
Steephill
2025-03-22 16:42:05 +0000 UTCI didn't like her because she didn't like Data. Plain and simple lol
Steephill
2025-03-22 16:40:27 +0000 UTCGood edit Alex
Jonathan
2025-03-22 16:34:44 +0000 UTCThere is a bias against female characters in film and television who are not viewed as warm and friendly. They are often perceived as cold and bitchy (unless they are purposely written this way). Yet male characters who display the same traits are considered likeable curmudgeons. Men can be prickly and tetchy and are more accepted by audiences yet women are not.
William McRae
2025-03-22 16:32:07 +0000 UTCPulaski gets a bad wrap. She was supposed to be like McCoy - the grouchy skeptic. But people were upset that she wasn't Beverly. The cast wasn't very nice to her either. But at least she just disappeared and didn't fall down an elevator shaft.
Turtleboy
2025-03-22 15:40:50 +0000 UTCBeverly crusher constantly makes mistakes
Steve the greeeen hand
2025-03-22 15:37:09 +0000 UTCPulaski vs crusher Fight!!!
Dylan Bottom
2025-03-22 15:35:32 +0000 UTCShe definitely was memorable, the actress is amazing.
Cooper Vision
2025-03-22 15:35:08 +0000 UTC
